Quotes By Marcus Aurelius

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Each day provides its own gifts.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.